Tag: agriculture

There was a moment in those halcyon days of late 2008, when liberals across the nation thought electing a president could actually by itself lead to a transformational moment that didn’t require massive organizing and fighting. As part of that moment, there was a lot of talk among the food and environmental movements that maybe […]

This is the grave of Earl Butz. Born in Albion, Indiana in 1909, Butz grew up working on his parents’ dairy farm. Unlike many young farm boys, Butz kept on through school, showed a lot of talent, and ended up at Purdue University. He got a BS in Agriculture in 1932 and then a Ph.D. […]

None of this is going to move Trump voters away from voting for their lovely white supremacist, but at least they are getting what they ask for. Here are the 30 congressional districts hit hardest by the new soy tariffs: 25R, 5D — but all 30 districts voted for Trump in '16 (https://t.co/qbb1O0qRI3) pic.twitter.com/5sKATtXuAg — […]

On September 25, 1891, a battle broke out in Lee County, Arkansas, in the Mississippi Delta, between members of the Colored Farmers Alliance and others, both black and white, who opposed their organizing for better wages in cotton picking. This led to the death of two black men who did not want to join the […]